The stone of heaven, as it is known in China, is also fueling civil war between the Burmese military and ethnic Kachin guerrillas seeking self-rule. Jade comes in many hues, from the shade of a ...

A Chinese woman fainted in a jewellery shop after accidentally breaking a jade bracelet priced at $44,000 (£35,000). The tourist from eastern Jiangxi province was trying on the bracelet in a shop ...

In 2019, Queen Elizabeth II held a state banquet for American President Donald Trump wearing a tiara made using Burmese ...

When the great King Anawrahta of Pagan united the whole of Burma into a single kingdom in the eleventh century and made Theravada Buddhism the national religion, there were already in existence a ...

The Burmese language belongs to the Tibeto-Burman group of the Tibeto-Chinese family of languages, but, unlike Chinese, it is not ideographic. That is, it does not have characters which originated ...

While raised in Manila, Wynn Wynn Ong was born in Burma, home of the best sapphire, ruby, and jade mines in the world ... untouched states and incorporating materials not often associated with jewelry ...

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The Rohingya were once counted as a part of the Mrauk-U (Mrohaung) kingdom in Arakan which stood independent of both the Burman kingdoms in the Irrawaddy delta and central Burma as well as Bengal ...

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The scale at which the Burmese python is able to decimate the native wildlife population in South Florida continues to astonish biologists studying to eradicate the invasive species. Researchers ...

Burmese Harp (8510 Fourth Avenue, at 86th Street) is the first restaurant for husband-and-wife owners Thein Tun Aung, known as Tony, and Aye Moe Khine. The couple was born in the 1970s in Yangon ...